Last week in Oslo I was lucky enough to attend the fantastic NDC 2014 conference, at which I gave the following talk about using brand-new not-yet-released Knockout.js features, along with Yeoman, Gulp, and Karma to build large single-page web apps in a very modern style (while still retaining backward compatibility all the way to IE 6!).

Published Jun 11, 2014

This should be of interest to anyone who uses Knockout or cares about scalable front-end architecture.

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00:00 Benefits and challenges of single-page apps; relevance of Knockout.js

Koa is a new application framework for Node.js. Its whole point is to eliminate the callback madness that plagues many Node.js apps. It achieves this previously-impossible feat by using the powerful generators feature which is new in JavaScript ES6. Koa is built by the same people who created Express, the best-known Node.js application framework, so it’s at least worth a look.